Heard around city hall
"Has anyone seen that Hamister check, it was here a minute ago?"
Charles Walker
"Look out Mr. Mayor! The guitar is falling!"
New Year's Eve reveler
"I don't care if you're the 'gatekeeper' of the casino money, I asked you to take the garbage out an hour ago!"
Becky Dyster
"Three plus nine and carry the one…"
Maria Brown
"I wonder what you have to do to get a stipend around here?"
113 city hall employees
"Let's plan our next meeting with the planning committee to discuss the Jayne Park Plan and that's sounds like a plan to me unless you've got a better plan."
Tom DeSantis
"Gee, these totes are hard to move."
Donna Owens
"We're making history here, Mr. Mayor."
Clint Brown, writing the Orchard Parkway grant
"We're making history here, Mr. Mayor."
Kevin Cottrell writing the Underground Railroad grant
"There's absolutely no truth to the rumor that Mayor Dyster will suspend the 2015 mayor election and declare himself City Emperor."
Craig Johnson, corporation counsel
"I'd rather have a root canal than sit through one more Dyster 'cabinet' meeting."
15 Department Heads
"I'd rather have an appendectomy without anesthesia that sit through one more meeting with the city administrator."
15 Department heads
Mystery solved:
The residents and some media have wondered why the Dyster administration is in perpetual debt. According to Dyster, the controller and the council majority, the source of the debt areemployee pay, health care and pensions.
And all this time we thought it was the $50 million courthouse with a $3,2 million, 30-year annual debt, the $45 million train station, $100,000salaries, out of control overtime, endless pay stipends, millions of dollars for consultant studies, $9 million for the Ice Pavilion, $700,000 for Isaiah 61, $150,000 for Community Missions,$700,000 for Hard Rock Concerts, the shuttered Underground Railroad Interpretive Center, the parking plan, engineer consultant fees, SWEET, $2.3 million for trash totes, new vehicles for cityhall, the $450,000 city hall parking lot, millions of dollars for Third Street grants, the planned $3,2 million animal shelter, and a whole lot more. Silly us. |